I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.